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“The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
― Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.”
― Annie Dillard